The Gary Portelli-trained Eight Bills will try to make it five straight wins in the Listed Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool on Wednesday week following his impressive first up win at Sandown.Jockey Mark Zahra labelled the Octagonal four-year-old as a flying machine after the gelding maintained his unbeaten record at 1000m in the ESP Tecforce Handicap.He was filling in for regular rider Dean Yendall who has been sidelined with injuries suffered in a race fall in Tasmania 10 weeks ago."He's a real

The Gary Portelli-trained Eight Bills will try to make it five straight wins in the Listed Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool on Wednesday week following his impressive first up win at Sandown.

Jockey Mark Zahra labelled the Octagonal four-year-old as a flying machine after the gelding maintained his unbeaten record at 1000m in the ESP Tecforce Handicap.

He was filling in for regular rider Dean Yendall who has been sidelined with injuries suffered in a race fall in Tasmania 10 weeks ago.

"He's a real flying machine. The further he goes the better he travels," Zahra said.

"I just came out with my hands on his neck and he relaxed well enough and he put paid to them pretty well. I thought it was a good victory.

"He stays out of trouble flying along and everything else is off the bit chasing him.

"He's just too fast, he 's won six out of seven so you can't ask for much more than that."

Eight Bills has won all four of his 1000m starts and his only defeat came in a 1300m Bendigo Class 2 last October when he was a close up third.

He was sent out an easing $3.40 favourite on Saturday after opening at $2.50 but proved too nippy to post a 1-1/2 length victory over the well backed Al's Best Mate ($3.70) with Floramour ($7) a nose away third.

Only a neck further back fourth were dead-heaters Uncle Ivan and Viking Turf Belle while Mrs Waters broke down in the straight and failed to complete the course.

"He loves the short trips but I have been training him to get the 1200m of the Wangoom," said assistant trainer Troy Portelli who looks after the stable's Flemington operation.

"Just looking at him today he was very strong on the line so the 1200 I don't think will be a worry.

The $100,000 Wangoom is run on Wednesday week.

Yendall, who rode Eight Bills in trackwork at Flemington last Tuesday morning, will reunite with him in the Wangoom.

Yendall, who has won four races from five rides aboard the gelding, broke both wrists and his broken collarbone in a race fall at Launceston on February 14 when his mount Regal Chivas suffered a massive haemorrhage in the home straight and collapsed.

Portelli said Eight Bills would be spelled after the Wangoom before returning for a spring campaign.

"We'll try and pick off some races with him during the spring," he said.

Tasmanian trainer Jason Clifford, who won the 2005 Hobart Cup with Our Dashing Dane, didn't venture to Sandown but his horse Forbidden Quest ($21) scored an upset win thanks to Darren Gauci's brilliant front-running ride in the City Of Greater Dandenong Cup (1800m).

In a blanket finish, the six-year-old gelding lasted by a short-neck from topweight Zoomin ($9.50) with Abitofado ($14) a nose away third.

Currency Cugat ($4.40 fav) flew home late to be a another nose away fourth.

Forbidden Quest, won hadn't previously won beyond 1620m, has now won 10 of his 34 starts.